The aim of this paper is to investigate the ability of the Dynamic Variance Gamma model, recently proposed by Bellini and Mercuri (2010), to evaluate option prices on the S&P500 index. We also provide a simple relation between the Dynamic Variance Gamma model and the Vix index. We use this...

Recent literature on mortality modeling suggests to include in the dynamics of mortality rates the effect of time, age, the interaction of the latter two terms and finally a term for possible shocks that introduce additional uncertainty. We consider for our analysis models that use Legendre...